[Coco] Coco can do more

[Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey]

On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 03:00 -0500, phil pt wrote:
> Running the old bbs software will not work unless a Rs232 Pack Driver
> is
> written for VCC.


There is an open-source VCC on github:
https://github.com/WallyZambotti/OVCC

Some of the code in the existing hardware addon subfolders (FD502,
Becker, etc) could probably be used as a model for how to interface a
new RS232 pack driver into OVCC.

I am sure the github maintainer for that is around here somewhere and
available to help, or you can fork/branch the project on github and
start adding in the driver directly and send it to him as a pull
request.

With open source, the only limit to the code is the number of people
who contribute to that code.


>  I think putting more a effort of writting rs232 pack
> support vs re-writting dozens of bbs software or other programs would
> save
> time, less headaches and benefit everyone in the long wrong.


True, since some of those BBS packages are close-source.
Other of them already sit in the remote/remote2 driver and can run from
RSDOS directly and use the Remote232 published in Rainbow directly.


>   Buffer
> overflow as someone said here earler with the rs32 pack can be
> controlled
> by using timmer events in the rs232 pack driver.


Another idea would be to use a different emulator as the host platform
such as Xroar or MAME and get the BBS started while you develop the
longer-term OVCC driver to move the BBS to the emulator of choice.


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Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey <exile at weylan-yutani.com>
Weylan-Yutani Corporation